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Brought to you by CityNews: CP24 here are some outrageous headlines and news stories featured on their website today:

Woman Gives Birth While Being Lynched For Sorcery – As crazy as this headline sounds it actually happened! In a jungle in New Guinea some residents were suspected of witchcraft and hanged! Well the husband and wife were dying she gave birth! I can’t believe that there are actually still places in the world where people are being hanged & burned at the stake for being suspected of dark magic!

Thieves Try To Rob Bar Where Biker Gang Is Meeting – Yes that’s right. The thieves broke into a pub where a biker gang of 50+ members were meeting. The bikers took down the thieves, hog tied them and waited for the cops to come and arrest them.

Want To Land That Job? Lose Weight: Study – Turns out that hirers looking for ideal employees are biased against fat people.

Dead Dog Lady Sings Pet Obituaries – She has been compared to Phoebe of Friends… and she thinks that’s a good thing.

I close both locks below the window.
I close both blinds and turn away.
Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple.
Sometimes goodbye’s the only way, oh.

And the sun will set for you
The sun will set for you.
And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray,
And the sun will set for you…

In cards and flowers on your window,
Your friends all plead for you to stay.
Sometimes beginnings aren’t so simple.
Sometimes goodbye’s the only way, oh.

And the sun will set for you,
The sun will set for you.
And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray,
And the sun will set for you.

And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray,
And the sun will set for you.

And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in gray,
And the sun will set for you.

[Shadow of the Day lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

Lonely Planet is a travel guide website.

PARIS (AFP) – In experiments that would make Dr. Frankenstein jealous, US scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding them with live cells, according to a study released Sunday.If extended to humans, the procedure could provide an almost limitless supply of hearts, and possibly other organs, to millions of terminally ill people waiting helplessly for a new lease on life.

Approximately 50,000 patients in the United States alone die every year for lack of a donor heart, and some 22 million people worldwide are living with the threat of heart failure.

“The idea would be to develop transplantable blood vessels or whole organs that are made from your own cells,” said lead researcher Doris Taylor, director of the Center or Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota.

While there have been advances in generating living heart tissue in the lab, this is the first time an entire, three-dimension bio-artificial heart has been brought to life.

The core procedure making this possible is called decellularisation.

In this process, all the cells from an organ — in this case the heart of a dead rat — are stripped away using powerful detergents, leaving only a bleached-white scaffolding composed of proteins secreted by the cells.

In the experiments, this matrix was then injected with a mixture of cells taken from newborn rat hearts and placed in a sterile lab setting, where the scientists hoped it would grow.

After only four days, contractions started, and on the eighth day, the hearts were pumping, according to the study, published in the British journal Nature Medicine.

The researchers were stunned.

“When we saw the first contractions, we were speechless,” said Harald Ott, a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.

“We certainly were surprised that it worked so well and so quickly,” Taylor told AFP. “There are so many places this could have gone wrong.”

In humans the objective would be to inject stemcells drawn directly from the recipient of the donated organ, thus eliminating the danger that the new heart would be rejected by the immune system.

Recent breakthroughs in stemcell research from non-embryo sources mean that new tissues should be easy to generate, according to the authors.

Many patients who might one day benefit from a transplanted bioartificial organ are currently not even listed as potential recipients, said Ott.

“If organs derived from a patient’s own cells would become available on a large scale — maybe even as an off-the-shelf product — millions of patients suffering from organ failure would benefit,” he said in an e-mail.

In these “proof of concept” experiments, the bioartificial rat hearts grown in the lab pumped, after eight days, with a force equivalent to about two percent of an adult rodent heart.

Taylor and her team are now working on making the recycled organs more efficient, and have even transplanted some of these hearts into the abdomens of rats and connected them to the animals’ aortas, a standard way of testing whether a donor organ can keep an animal alive.

Decellularisation could change the way scientists thinks about engineering organs, according to the study.

“It opens a door to this notion that you can make any organ: kidney, liver, lung, pancreas — you name it and we hope we can make it,” Taylor said.

Though not reported in this study, the Minnesota researchers have also successfully applied the technique to pig hearts, which are closer to human hearts in size and complexity.

Leave it to the nutters at Cracked.com to come up with this sensational & educational article about the 5 pimpingest historical figures of all time:

Philosopher of rap Ice-T once reflected that “Pimpin’ ain’t easy.” We here at Cracked are inclined to agree. That’s why these historical men deserve special commendation for bringing the bling, bitches and beatdowns to their reigns, while laying a stiff backhand across the face of convention and scoring major amounts of tang in the process.

They were, quite simply, the pimpingest men of all time.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CRACKED.COM! 

Absolutely amazing movie, best movie ever!  Denzel Washington nails his character as usual with his classic style.  I was hanging on every moment of the saga and at times felt shocked at the heinous crimes.  It is a movie that encourages us to reflect on the history of law and order and many things.  All the cultures that make our history, how everything is connected.  Really inspiring movie.

I heard an interview on Flow 93.5 with Jay Z and he ended up in studio to express his flow of emotions after watching this movie.  Although I don’t think I could sit through an entire Jay Z album maybe I could read through the lyrics and see what he felt and how the movie inspired him too.

I am sure that anyone that watched this movie would take enormous value from it and be able to apply it to their own lives highs and lows and the nature of the universe uncovering new avenues for all of us every day.

When studying Joomla forums months ago I came across this and just found it again, I find it hilarious being the nerd that I am…
[Information on W3C's site about DOCTYPEs is] written by geeks for geeks. And when I say geeks, I don’t mean ordinary web professionals like you and me. I mean geeks who make the rest of us look like Grandma on the first day She’s Got Mail.

Alec Baldwin: Let me have your attention for a moment. ‘Cause you’re talkin’ about what…you’re talkin’ ’bout…bitchin’ about that sale you shot, some son of a bitch don’t want to buy land, somebody don’t want what you’re selling, some broad you’re trying to screw, so forth, let’s talk about something important. Are they all here?
Kevin Spacey: All but one.
Baldwin: Well, I’m going anyway. Let’s talk about something important. (sees Lemmon pouring coffee). Put that coffee down. Coffee’s for closer’s only. You think I’m fuckin’ with you? I am not funkin’ with you. I’m here from downtown. I’m here from Mitch and Murray. And I’m here on a mission of mercy. Your name’s Levine?
Jack Lemmon: Yeah.
Baldwin: You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch.
Ed Harris: I don’t gotta listen to this shit.
Baldwin: You certainly don’t pal ’cause the good news is you’re fired. The bad news is you got all you got, just one week to regain your job, starting with tonight, starting with tonight’s sits. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. ‘Cause we’re adding a little something to this month’s sale contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is your fired. You get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can’t close the leads you’re given, you can’t close shit, you are shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it ’cause you are going out.
Lemmon: The leads are weak.
Baldwin: The leads are weak. The fuckin’ leads are weak? You’re weak. I’ve been in this business 15 years …
Harris: What’s your name?
Baldwin: Fuck you, that’s my name. You know why mister? Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an 80,000 dollar BMW. That’s my name. (To Lemmon) And your name is you’re wanting. You can’t play in the man’s game, you can’t close them? Then go home and tell your wife your troubles. Because only one thing counts in this life. Get them to sign on the line which is dotted. You hear me you fuckin’ faggots.
(Flips the blackboard)
ABC. A, Always, B, Be, C, Closing. Always be closing. Always be closing. AIDA. Attention. Interest. Decision. Action. Attention. Do I have your attention? Interest. Are you interested? I know you are ’cause it’s fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks. Decision. Have you made your decision for Christ? And action. AIDA. Get out there. You got the prospects coming in, you think they came in to get out of the rain? A guy don’t walk on the lot lest he wants to buy. They’re sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you going to take it? Are you man enough to take it? (To Harris) What’s the problem, pal?
Harris: You, boss, you’re such a hero, you’re so rich, how come you’re coming down here and wasting your time with such a bunch of bums?
Baldwin: You see this watch? You see this watch?
Harris: Yeah.
Baldwin: That watch costs more than your car. I made 970,000 dollars last year, how much you make? You see pal, that’s who I am, and you’re nothing. Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father. Fuck you, go home and play with your kids. You want to work here, close. You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cock-sucker. You can’t take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit. If you don’t like it, leave. I can go out there tonight, the materials you got, make myself 15,000 dollars. Tonight. In two hours. Can you? Can you?
Go and do likewise. AIDA. Get mad you son-of-a-bitch. Get mad. You know what it takes to sell real-estate? It takes brass balls to sell real estate. Go and do likewise, gents. The money’s out there, you pick it up, it’s yours, you don’t, I got no sympathy for you. You want to go out on those sits tonight and close, close, it’s yours, if not, you’re going to be shining my shoes. And you know what you’ll be saying. Bunch of losers sitting around in a bar: ”Oh yeah, I used to be a salesman. It’s a tough racket.”
These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you, they’re gold. And you don’t get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They’re for closers.  I’d wish you good luck, but you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you got it. (To Harris) And to answer your question, pal: Why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to, they asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fuckin’ ass because a loser is a loser.